Me attempting to run a 5K.

Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…

Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time

This technology eliminates performers. And it replaces it with nothing.

This is not like other technical revolutions in the arts. Recording and replay technology did change the market for live music, but it created new reach for musicians. Cinema certainly impacted stage actors, but created a new platform for actors also.

This of course, does not mean that people won't make art. People will always make art.

But they won't be able to make a living doing it. Which means there will be less art, and less good art. And we will all lose.

One of the cardinal rules of technology: Just because you can, doesn't mean you *should*.

What kind of world do we actually want to live in? Art is one of the things that makes life worth living. Why would we not want to make art ourselves anymore?

Ben Affleck sells his AI postproduction startup to Netflix Announcing the InterPositive deal, the actor says he was moved from being scared of the technology to embracing it

The Hollywood A list are not entirely innocent here either - here's Ben Affleck trying to automate out set designers, set dressers, lighting, stunts, GCI artists.
www.mediaweek.com.au/backlash-aga...

We are trying to live in a society here. Do you actually want a *culture*?

Clearly some people don't, or at least not more than they want to not pay actors.

The moneyball approach to cinema is ruinous. You can't make good art while minimising all risk. Cinema should not be soley judged as an investment vehicle. Actors, filmmakers, should not treated as components to be automated out to achieve costs savings. They are *why* people watch.

I also want an actual acting industry, which can't exist if you replace acting with a statistical prediction model churning out an amalgum of prevous performances.

There have always been great and terrible performances, but all this would do is ensure eternal mediocrity. And prevent anything new.

I want art. With meaning. Made by people.

For what? Art is not just 'content'. Art is about storytelling, about people communicating with other people.

I'm not interested in a simulacrum of a person, providing its best estimate of emotion. I might as well listen to a blender - it makes sound, but there's no meaning in it.

This is ghoulish. The dead cannot consent to this.

This isn't acting, it's a golem reading lines - extruded product. There's no intention, no feeling. No one and nothing to connect to.

It's also displacing a living actor who could have played this role.

The Federal Court has released its 'Generative Artificial Intelligence Practice Note' www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-prac...

Super cute page from a PC Engine CD (Turbografx CD) manual explaining how to take care of your CD ROM.

*sigh*

This is one of the few statements about law that is probably wrong across nearly every theory of jurisprudence, and that's actually pretty impressive.

A 'new analysis'? Every expert in the field has been warning this for years.

This is a poor idea. If your system wants to handle personal info but it can't be privacy protective, then your system should not exist. AI is not special or magic in this regard. If it can't comply, then it shouldn't be used.

Concept to execution.

When the age assurance technology trial released its final report before Australia’s under-16s social media ban came into effect last year, its first finding was: age assurance can be done privately, efficiently and effectively. Four months since the ban came into effect, we can say that was – to paraphrase Yes Minister – a courageous statement.

Wrote about yesterday's social media ban data showing more than two thirds of teens still have accounts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, recently spoke during a panel discussion held by Crain’s New York Business.

AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...

The shadow work on this is splendid.

Good

A watercolour sketch of Weston, who is a caramel French bulldog. He is clutching a pair of white scalloped sunglasses in his mouth.

Sometimes, you go to the gym. And sometimes you skip the gym to sketch the neighbour’s dog who has decided his toddler’s sunglasses are actually his.

I would like to say this is good news, that the only actual use case for this product was misinformation, abuse and fraud. But there are numerous other video platforms now, and this won't even move the needle.

Watercolour of two red brows finches.

In my 20s, I would be mad if i didn’t have epic plans for my weekends. In my 40s, here’s how I spend my weekends.

Incidentially, I tested Claude on basic elements on the Corporations Act this morning. It misquoted provisions, hallucinated sections and subsections. It did so with 100% confidence. Only an actual lawyer with some experience in the field would identify the errors.

Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities

2018! This has been happening since 2018!

Another thought: Strava must have some insanely detailed and sensitive force deployment intel.